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Name: Goal! The Dream Begins
Released: 2006-5-12
Cast: Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures, Sean Pertwee

Goal! The Dream Begins

PG
1h 58m
2005

43%

The amazingly gifted Santiago Munez, a young immigrant living in the barrios of Los Angeles, has an impossible dream -- to play soccer for a world class team. Unexpectedly getting a tryout with one of England's premier soccer clubs, Newcastle United, Santiago finds himself totally alone in a world where soccer is a religion and the players are gods. Now he not only has to prove he has the passion, talent, and determination to make it alongside the best in the world, but he has to overcome his own demons and those of others. Filled with memorable characters, great heart, and real-life soccer legends, GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS is a triumphant story about believing in your dreams.

Director:

Danny Cannon

Producer:

Mike Jefferies, Matt Barrelle, Mark Huffam

Writer:

Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement, Ian Frenais

Cast:

Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures, Sean Pertwee, Alessandro Nivola

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

43%

Critics Consensus: Impressive sports action sequences are the highlight, as the run-of the-mill story invokes every known sports movie cliche.

Reviews

The List

Tom Dawson

Of the actors, it's Alessandro Nivola in the role of a playboy midfielder who provides Goal!'s most entertaining performance. It's a pity then that the world he inhabits in the film is depicted in such cartoonish terms.

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Herald Sun (Australia)

Leigh Paatsch

There is a bulky bundle of sports movie cliches to sort through here if you do intend to follow the rise of wizardly soccer winger Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker)...

Director Danny Cannon ("I Still Know What You Did Last Summer") captures every bit of Kuno Becker's star quality although the committee-written script remains slack.

...engaging and fun to watch, thanks mainly to Kuno Becker in the title role (he's such a nice kid, we can't help but root for him).

The action on the field won't be enough to sate the most soccer-crazed viewers.

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